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1 Oklahoma Nights  
2 Wichita Lineman  
3 If You See Me Getting Smaller  
4 Galveston  
5 P.F. Sloan  
6 By The Time I Get To Phoenix  
7 Cowboy Hall Of Fame  
8 Where Words End  
9 Highwayman  
10 I Was Too Busy Loving You  
11 It Won't Bring Her Back  
12 Do What You Gotta Do  
13 All I Know  
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Just Across The River, the new album from multiple Grammy award-winner Jimmy Webb, one of the most celebrated composers and songwriters in American music history, is set for release June 29 on E1 Music. The album features interpretations of the classic songs that made him a vital cultural icon including "By The Time I Get To Phoenix," "Wichita Lineman," "Galveston," "The Highwayman," "Oklahoma Nights" and more. The album features guest appearances from Webb's friends, fans and recording partners including Jackson Browne, Glen Campbell, Vince Gill, Billy Joel, Mark Knopfler, Michael McDonald, Willie Nelson, Linda Ronstadt, J.D. Souther and Lucinda Williams.

Just Across The River came together at the behest of producer and longtime Webb collaborator Fred Mollin, who wished to honor Webb's storied career and his celebrated contributions to the Americana roots tradition (Webb is a native son of Oklahoma). Says Mollin of the album, "This record is a homecoming for Jimmy. His songs are true classics and they could provide the soundtrack to your life."

Webb adds, "From the very first song, first take, first note this record seemed blessed. I hope everyone else feels what we did as we listened to the first rough mixes. And then as each piece fell into place, a fully realized, conceptual work of art emerged."

Just Across The River was recorded primarily live over the course of two days at Sound Emporium in Nashville, TN. Joining Webb live in the studio were John Hobbs (piano, Wurlitzer, organ), Bryan Sutton (acoustic guitars, banjo, mandolin), John Willis (acoustic guitars, electric guitars, banjo), Larry Paxton (bass), Greg Morrow and Eddie Bayers (drums), Stuart Duncan (fiddle, mandolin), Jeff Taylor (accordion), Pat Buchanan (electric guitars) and Paul Franklin (steel guitar, dobro). Mark Knopfler provided lead electric guitar on "By The Time I Get To Phoenix," Johnny A. contributed electric guitar on "Galveston" and Jerry Douglas added dobro on "Wichita Lineman."

  • Jimmy Webb will return to Australia this December for shows in Melbourne and Sydney / NOISE11
    Posted At: August 15, 2023
    Jimmy Webb is an American songwriter, composer and singer known worldwide as a master of his trade. His timeless hits continue to be performed and recorded by the industry’s biggest names, and his new compositions span the musical spectrum from classical to pop. This past year saw his “Wichita Lineman” on the set list in three major artist tours – Guns N’ Roses, Little Big Town, and Toby Keith – and used pr...

  • Jimmy Webb on Bruce Springsteen / UNCUT
    Posted At: June 15, 2019

    Back in 2017, Springsteen revealed that the album was "influenced by the Southern California pop music of the '70s… Glen Campbell, Jimmy Webb, Burt Bacharach, those kinds of records. I don't know if people will hear those influences, but that was what I had in my mind. It gave me something to hook an album around;  When Uncut spoke to Jimmy Webb, the legendary songwriter admits he...

  • Jimmy Webb to perform at Woodstock Opera House / Chicago Daily Herald
    Posted At: April 7, 2019

    Legendary songwriter Jimmy Webb, with chartoppers like "Wichita Lineman," "Didn't We," and "MacArthur Park," will tell riveting stories of how these songs came to be and his adventures at the center of the 1960s and '70s music scene on Saturday, April 27, at the Woodstock Opera House. Webb has topped the charts from pop to country to disco numerous times with interpretations by some of the i...

  • Jimmy Webb plays tribute to Glen Campbell at Opening Nights / Tallahassee Democrat
    Posted At: March 20, 2019

    Composer/Songwriter Jimmy Webb, will play his songs made famous by the late Glen Campbell, right, during a show at Opening Nights Tuesday. Webb has had chart-topping hits in a wide range of genres, from country to pop to disco, with songs including "Worst That Could Happen," "Wichita Lineman," "Up, Up and Away" and "MacArthur Park." But perhaps the most enduring partnership out of all those memorabl...

  • Jimmy Webb tributes Glen Campbell in Clearwater / Tampa Bay Times
    Posted At: March 15, 2019

    The legendary writer of ‘Galveston,' ‘Wichita Lineman' and other hits opens up about his late friend. Jimmy Webb will perform at the Capitol Theatre in Clearwater on March 28. Thanks to his partnership with Campbell, for whom he wrote Wichita Lineman and Galveston, Webb helped define the lush sound of mid-'60s and -'70s pop and country. Now he's taking some of the more than 100 songs the...

  • Listen to Jimmy Webb's songs and the stories he can tell on ABC - Australia
    Posted At: July 15, 2018

    p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060} Jimmy Webb is that rarity in rock music, a professional songwriter who achieved stardom in that capacity. Rock music has its share of great songwriters, but most of them -- Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Gene Clark, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Pete Townshend -- became best known for their o...

  • Jimmy Webb and friends return to Australia / NOISE11
    Posted At: April 30, 2018

    Jimmy Webb will return to Australia for two shows in August for shows with his friends, Jimmy Barnes, David Campbell, Kaye Ceberano, Ed Kuepper and Ian Moss. Webb last toured Australia in 2017, stunning crowds with his original songs that are now part of pop culture. About his return, the songwriter says, "Australia with its vast shorelines, ferry boats and natural wonders has always been my favourite pl...

  • Jimmy Webb, set for Pabst Theatre, speaks with WUWM: Lake Effect
    Posted At: April 11, 2018

    From Wichita Lineman to All I Know to If These Walls Could Speak, Jimmy Webb's songs have been covered by many in the pop and rock pantheon. In many ways, his catalogue of songs has defined American pop music for the past 5 decades. And since the early 90s, Webb has been on the road himself, performing his own songs in his own way. But it was the late Glen Campbell who truly shaped Webb's career: "I ...

  • Jimmy Webb chooses 'Tracks of My Years' on BBC Radio 2
    Posted At: January 23, 2018

    Jimmy Webb, American songwriter, composer and singer, chooses the Tracks of My Years with music from James Taylor and Joni Mitchell. Jimmy has written numerous platinum-selling songs, including "Up, Up and Away", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman", "Galveston", "The Worst That Could Happen", "All I Know", and "MacArthur Park". He has had successful collaborations with Glen Campbell, M...

  • Jimmy Webb set to play 2017ACM honors at Ryman Auditorium / NewsOK
    Posted At: August 20, 2017

    Jimmy Webb has been added to the lineup of performers for the Academy of Country Music - 11th Annual ACM Honors from Nashville's historic Ryman Auditorium. The evening celebrates the special honorees and off-camera category winners from the 52nd Academy of Country Music Awards. The televised special will tape this Wednesday and air Friday, Sept. 15 on CBS.  Jimmy Webb is a master of his...

  • The Wichita Lineman. A perfect sonic landscape / HUFFPOST UK
    Posted At: August 15, 2017

    With the passing of Glen Campbell last week, many writers and authorities are commenting on the supersonic hit written in a few hours by Jimmy Webb and recorded in one afternoon in 1968. It was an immediate hit and permanently lifted Campbell from the country music genre to being a far-ranging popular artist. When I first heard The Wichita Lineman, aged about ten, I choked with emotion. The rawness of th...

  • Jimmy Webb set for the other Levitt Pavilion / Pasadena Now
    Posted At: July 22, 2017

    Songwriter, composer and singer Jimmy Webb is responsible for some of the most notable hits of the late 20th century, among which are such hits as "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," "Galveston" and "Wichita Lineman," popularized by Glen Campbell, "Up, Up and Away," and the soaring masterpiece, "MacArthur Park," which became a hit for Richard Harris in the late 1960s. In his career, Webb has received Gr...

  • Last night was a memorable evening with Jimmy Webb at Melbourne Recital Centre / NOISE 11
    Posted At: June 28, 2017

    Once upon a time when songwriting was an art form Jimmy Webb was one of songwriting's greatest sculptors. His songs defy time and have become a soundtrack for generations. Watching Jimmy Webb in concert is a rare priviledge. You are in a room with a man who made history and is sitting around to tell you about it. Jimmy's stories between the songs are as great as the songs themselves. It was mem...

  • Jimmy Webb talks about his legendary career on Talking Travel
    Posted At: June 24, 2017

    Every Sunday to Thursday Tim Webster takes you travelling around Australia and around the world. Tim helps you plan your next trip with the best travel ideas and deals, and loves to hear your travel stories and have a laugh along the way. If you had a soundtrack of your life, I can guarantee you'd have a song on it that would have been written, composed or sung by a man called Jimmy Webb. T...

  • Jimmy Webb set for Australia tour, speaks with 2GB - Sydney
    Posted At: June 22, 2017

    Australia's most popular talkback presenter, Alan Jones is a phenomenon. He's described by many as the nation's greatest orator and motivational speaker. Alan has the mind and capacity to make complex issues understandable to the largest Breakfast audience in Australia. Jimmy Webb set for his Australia tour, speaks with 2GB - Sydney Chris Smith, sitting in for Alan LISTEN...

  • Jimmy Webb - The Cake and the Rain set to be published in UK / uDiscover Music
    Posted At: June 14, 2017

    Jimmy Webb, one of the creators of the modern American songbook, will have his new memoir, The Cake and the Rain, published by Omnibus Press in the UK on 31 August. It was published in the US by St. Martin's Press in April. The book details the early life, and the first 15 years of the career, of a man whose songwriting genius produced such classics as 'Up, Up and Away,' 'Ma...

  • Jimmy Webb set for Australia tour speaks with 3AW - Melbourne
    Posted At: June 13, 2017

    America's greatest living songwriter, Jimmy Webb, is making his way to Australian shores in June and will perform in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne & Perth.  The composer and singer, known worldwide as a master of his trade, will perform his catalogue of hits to Australian audiences. A true living legend of songwriting, Jimmy Webb has been crafting amazing songs, many of which have become cherished...

  • Jimmy Webb set for Brisbane Powerhouse / The Australian
    Posted At: June 9, 2017

    Veteran American songwriter Jimmy Webb is on his way here for a series of solo shows starting at Brisbane's Powerhouse on June 24. His visit coincides with the publication of his memoir, appropriately titled The Cake and the Rain, a nod to one of his most famous compositions, MacArthur Park. This first instalment of the 70-year-old's life story takes us from his childhood in Oklahoma to the bright l...

  • Jimmy Webb returns to Perth after six years / The West Australian
    Posted At: June 5, 2017

    Legendary American songwriter Jimmy Webb is disarmingly frank about the secret of his current show's appeal: "It's a name-dropping fest". Webb won his first Grammy 50 years ago, for Up, Up and Away, and has since collected countless platinum and gold records. By the 1970s, those hits - By the Time I Get to Phoenix, Wichita Lineman, All I Know, the gigantic MacArthur Park, The Highwayman and Didn't We? (o...

  • Jimmy Webb Q&A with Los Angeles Times
    Posted At: May 31, 2017

    Songwriter and composer Jimmy Webb has Grammys and platinum albums and Hall of Fame plaques. But it's the fact that people are still singing and still listening to the songs he started writing 50 years ago that's a defining difference: "Wichita Lineman," "Didn't We," "Up, Up and Away," soundtracks, musicals, hundreds of songs and, of course, "MacArthur Park." He moved to Southern California as a teenager...

  • Jimmy Webb will discuss new memoir on WUSB - The Sounds of Film / LongIsland.com
    Posted At: May 25, 2017

    Long Island's Jimmy Webb will be Tom Needham's exclusive guest this Thursday on WUSB's the Sounds of Film.  He will be discussing his new autobiography, The Cake and the Rain. Webb, one of America's most celebrated songwriters and composers was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1990, and has received the National Academy of Songwriters Lifetime Achievement Award and has received ...

  • Jimmy Webb returns home for - The Cake and the Rain / NewsOK
    Posted At: May 8, 2017

    The legendary songwriter and native Oklahoman Jimmy Webb released last month his first memoir, titled "The Cake and the Rain," after the indelible lyrics to one of his most enduring and curiously enigmatic hits, "MacArthur Park. "I think ‘The Cake and the Rain' is a metaphor for the good and the bad - and sometimes the ugly. It's also probably the thing I've been most asked about in my ...

  • All-stars celebrate Jimmy Webb's musical legacy at Carnegie Hall / RollingStone.com
    Posted At: May 5, 2017

    Songwriter Jimmy Webb's mammoth catalog of classic songs was mined by artists from multiple genres Wednesday night during "The Cake and the Rain," an all-star celebration of Webb's musical legacy that also served as a benefit concert, with proceeds donated to the Alzheimer's Association and the I'll Be Me Foundation in honor of longtime friend and fellow music icon Glen Campbell. Dwight Yoaka...

  • Jimmy Webb gets the best people for a good cause / Classic Hits 105.5
    Posted At: May 3, 2017

    Courtesy of City Winery The star-studded concert saluting acclaimed songwriter Jimmy Webb takes place this Wednesday, May 3, at New York City's famous Carnegie Hall. "A Celebration of the Music of Jimmy Webb: The Cake and the Rain" will include performances by Graham Nash, Art Garfunkel, ex-Fifth Dimension members Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr., BJ Thomas, Judy Collins, Johnny Rivers and Webb himself....

  • Jimmy Webb at Carnegie Hall / The New Yorker
    Posted At: May 2, 2017

    On a recent drizzly Wednesday afternoon, Jimmy Webb, the seventy-year-old Grammy-winning songwriter of "Up, Up and Away," "MacArthur Park," "Wichita Lineman," and many other wistful hits of the AM-FM era, visited Carnegie Hall with his wife. They headed to the main stage, Stern Auditorium. There, this week, artists including Judy Collins, Art Garfunkel, Toby Keith, and Hanson (yes, that Hanson), will per...

  • Jimmy Webb on NPR: Here & Now
    Posted At: May 2, 2017

    Jimmy Webb is one of the world's greatest songwriters. His list of hits, including "Up Up and Away," Wichita Lineman" and "MacArthur Park," has been recorded by Glen Campbell, Frank Sinatra, Linda Ronstadt and countless other artists. He writes about his skyrocketing rise to fame in a new memoir called "The Cake and the Rain," and joins Here & Now's Robin Young to talk about it ahead of a spe...

  • Jimmy Webb will discuss new memoir at the Country Music Hall of Fame / The Tennessean
    Posted At: April 27, 2017

    Jimmy Webb has written some of American music's most indelible songs of the last half-century, including "Wichita Lineman," "By the Time I Get to Phoenix"and "Galveston," which were all hits for Glen Campbell. For the last three years, Webb focused his attention on prose: his new memoir, "The Cake and the Rain" (the title is a reference to his song "MacArthur Park") was released this m...

  • Jimmy Webb on Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast
    Posted At: April 24, 2017

    Gilbert and Frank are joined by legendary songwriter Jimmy Webb ("Wichita Lineman," "Up, Up and Away"), who shares an entire career's worth of memories and anecdotes, including meeting Elvis, playing baccarat with Ol' Blue Eyes, turning down 40K a week to play Vegas and and sitting in on a recording session of the "White Album." Also, Jimmy parties with Paul Williams, crosses swords wit...

  • Review: Jimmy Webb's 'The Cake and the Rain' memoir on 'The Current: Rock and Roll Book Club'
    Posted At: April 12, 2017

    The title of Jimmy Webb's new memoir might be a little confusing, unless you happen to be familiar with one of the most infamous surprise hits of the rock era - a 1968 song Webb wrote and produced for the debut album by the great actor Richard Harris. Against all odds, the 441-second song became a top-five hit in both the U.S. and U.K., and later became a chart-topping disco hit for Donna Summer. ...

  • City Winery presents Carnegie Hall, all-star tribute to Jimmy Webb / CMT.com, MusicRow, NewsOK
    Posted At: March 21, 2017

    Ashley Campbell, Toby Keith and Dwight Yoakam will represent country in a City Winery - all-star tribute to Grammy-winning hit-maker Jimmy Webb on May 3 at Carnegie Hall in New York. A Celebration of the Music of Jimmy Webb will feature additional performances by Amy Grant, Art Garfunkel, Billy Davis, Jr., Johnny Rivers, Judy Collins, Marilyn McCoo of Fifth Dimension and Webb himself. Proceeds from the n...

  • Jimmy Webb. On the road and in Atlanta / Creative Loafing
    Posted At: March 8, 2017

    Singer, composer and American music icon Jimmy Webb is on the road regaling audiences with a lifetime of stories. He's in town for Eddie's Attic on Fri. March 10, and then at the Ellijay Elementary School Auditorium on Sat 3/11. Webb is a consummate storyteller. As a multiple Grammy Award-winning songwriter, he penned some of the most enduring songs of the 20th century, including "Wichita Lineman...

  • Jimmy Webb Interview with Best Classic Bands / Hits & Misses
    Posted At: November 1, 2016

    In the first half of our interview with Jimmy Webb, the legendary songwriter/producer/performer talked about some of his most iconic compositions, including "MacArthur Park," "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," "Wichita Lineman" and "Worst That Could Happen." In part two, he delves into the nuts and bolts of creating a hit song, Webb's participation in the Monterey Pop Festival and the questionable future of...

  • Jimmy Webb plays US Ambasador's Creative Minds series / Goldenplec Music News
    Posted At: September 29, 2016

    Prolific songwriter Jimmy Webb was the guest of U.S. Ambassador Kevin O'Malley's Cretive Minds series in his Phoenix Park home. The goal of which is to strengthen cultural ties between The U.S. and Ireland through music and the arts. The evening featured a discussion of Webb's life and career, moderated by RTE's John Kelly, interspersed with some of Webb's most famous songs. Webb described his start in t...

  • Jimmy Webb - 'The Glen Campbell Years at Carnegie Hall: Dunfermline' / The Courier review
    Posted At: September 16, 2016

    "There's an old saying in my country that if you ‘practice, practice, practice you'll get to the Carnegie Hall. Well, I've just found another way to get to the Carnegie Hall!" laughed American song writing legend Jimmy Webb as he took to the stage in Fife for the first time at the Dunfermline version of Carnegie's New York name sake. The Grammy Award winning master song writer made the comment on W...

  • The story behind Wichita Lineman / New Zealand Listener
    Posted At: July 28, 2016

    Wichita, Kansas, is the home of Pizza Hut, Cessna aircraft and the fictional lineman from a Jimmy Webb song. Webb wrote Wichita Lineman in response to a request from Glen Campbell who, having done well withBy the Time I Get to Phoenix, thought that Webb might be able to work his magic again. Campbell told me in 2006: "After Phoenix I said to Jimmy, ‘Do me another song that makes...

  • Jimmy Webb returns to MacArthur Park to sing MacArthur Park / Los Angeles Times
    Posted At: July 7, 2016

    It's time to whip up another batch of sweet green icing: Songwriter Jimmy Webb will return to Los Angeles for a performance July 9 at MacArthur Park, where he will sing his iconic 1968 ballad "MacArthur Park" in the place that inspired him to write it. It will be just the second time he has sung the song in the mid-city park. It's a locale he spent time in while he was still a stru...
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